Scott Thompson: Justin Trudeau can mediate but he can't make the call

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau scratches his forehead as he listens to a question during an end of session news conference in Ottawa on December 19, 2018. The Trudeau government plans for child care spending is facing an election-year critique from an academic paper that calls on the Liberals to rethink its daycare plan if it wants to bill itself as a "feminist government." Federal coffers are set to dole out $7.5 billion over a decade to help fund child care spaces across the country, and the government has issued invitations to an event Wednesday with the minister in charge of the file. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

When one promises to deliver everything in order to make people happy, one usually ends up delivering nothing, making most people mad.

Canada may finally be realizing this about our current prime minister, Justin Trudeau.

When the Truth and Reconciliation Report came out, he promised Indigenous communities that he would honour all the recommendations it contained.

Oddly enough, beautiful British Columbia is home to the largest coal port in all of North America. In 2017, B.C. shipped more than $900 million worth of coal to the heaviest polluter, China — the very country the world is trying to clean up.

Instead of action, we have more protests and indecision, while the prime minister only offers hope, smiles and selfies.

Yes, you have to listen to and be respectful of both sides of a debate, but then you have to make a call.

Something the prime minister doesn’t seem to have the courage to do, other than with weed.